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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Background of Kant's Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) A posteriori.
(b) A priori.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Analytic.

2. How was Kant influenced by Leibniz?
(a) He agreed with him so much.
(b) He thought Leibniz was more intelligent than Hume.
(c) He sided with Leibniz over Hume.
(d) He had so many disagreements with him.

3. When was "Critique of Practical Reason" published?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1788.

4. What did "Critique of Practical Reason" deal with?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Logic.
(d) Religion.

5. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a thinking self.
(b) One has an identity.
(c) One is an intelligent self.
(d) One is a human being.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?

2. What are the first types of truths, according to Kant?

3. According to Hume, what can reason tell us about?

4. For Hume to believe something, what did he need?

5. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

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